Lewis Klahr

Lewis Klahr is an American experimental animator based in southern California. He specializes in cut-and-paste animation techniques using found photos and illustrations. His work is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

When not working on his own films, Klahr has created the animated openings for TV shows, music videos and commercials. He is also currently a film and screenwriting professor at the California Institute of the Arts.

On November 18 at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, California, Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Fund presented a selection of experimental films that will be included on the upcoming DVD box set Treasures VI: Next Wave Avant-Garde.

The 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival is screening films by Jodie Mack, Deborah Straman, Ben Rivers, Stephanie Barber, and a new film by James Benning, plus the doc Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.

The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival opens with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, and will screen Don Swaynos’s Pictures of Superheroes, Drew Tobias’s See You Next Tuesday and loads more cinematic oddities.